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Humility.(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Tom Frame tackled a potentially ungrateful subject (humility) in the April issue. Despite his efforts, the term remains for me a lofty tenor for simpler taunts like self-effacing, unassuming and gracious. Given his extensive treatment, I wonder if Mr Frame found an irony in his description of non-believers as being "of meagre and miserly intellect". This seemed a gesture of hubris and exclusion that most educated atheists do not commit on their opposite numbers. (Is it possible that some atheists and agnostics, rather than being obtuse, ...
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